View of lunar surface taken from Apollo 8 spacecraft
AS08-12-2192 (21-27 Dec. 1968) --- View of the lunar surface taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft looking southward from high altitude across the Southern Sea. (Hold picture with AS8 number in upper right corner). The bright-rayed crater near the horizon is located near 130 degrees east longitude and 70 degrees south latitude. The dark-floored crater near the middle of the right side of the photograph is about 70 kilometers (45 statute miles) in diameter. Both features are beyond the eastern limb of the moon as viewed from Earth; neither has a name.
- Date
- 1968-12-24
- Collection
- JSC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"View of lunar surface taken from Apollo 8 spacecraft" (1968-12-24). NASA/JSC. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/as08-12-2192Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 8597.
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